Wiz vs Aqua Security
Eleven of fourteen models named Wiz first on the direct prompt; one named Aqua Security. Wiz was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Aqua Security by eight and Wiz carries 70 labels and Aqua Security 12, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in sixteen categories this edition.
Named in five categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the cloud-native application protection page.
By framing
WizFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAqua Security
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Wiz and Aqua Security were named in the same answer 122 times, of the 743 answers naming Wiz and the 226 naming Aqua Security. In those answers Aqua Security took the first choice twelve times and Wiz forty-one.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | | |||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | |||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | | | | |
| Mistral Small | | | | |||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | | | |
| Llama 4 Maverick | | | | |||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | | |
| Kimi K2 | | | | | | |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | | | | |
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | | | | |
| GPT-6 Luna | | | | |||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | | | |
Wiz Aqua Security first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Wiz on the left and Aqua Security on the right.The direct prompt
Both were the first choice
1 of 14 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.Wiz first, Aqua Security not the choice
10 of 14 modelsAqua Security was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
2 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
1 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Wiz48%#1 of 11Aqua Security0%#10 of 11What the models said about Wiz
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“Options to Avoid on a Tight Budget - Wiz — Starts around ~$100K/year; way too expensive” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: Enterprise-heavy like Wiz/Prisma (quote-based, often $20K–$100K+/year)” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · hard negative
“Wiz (Overall Leader) ... Wiz is the CNAPP market leader, and its Security Graph provides genuinely differentiating features with unmatched time-to-value.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice
What the models said about Aqua Security
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“Aqua Security - a CNAPP that secures containerized and cloud-native applications from development through runtime.” Llama 4 Maverick · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.